Challenge Magazine

Challenge Magazine
Product information
Type	Magazine
Publication information
Publisher	Game Designers' Workshop
First published	1986
Content
Timeline	1986-1996
Preceded by	Journal of the Travellers Aid Society

This gaming magazine contained periodic BattleTech content. Fifty-three issues of the magazine were printed beginning with issue #25. The last issue was issue #77. Approximately one-third of the issues had a single BattleTech article.

Known content

Issue 30

Article: Building the Perfect 'Mech'

Issue 35

TRO: Afterburner 'Mech

Issue 36

Article: 'Mech Alternatives; TRO: Silhouette, Worker Bee & FreeFall APC hover/jump tanks

Issue 38

Article: Direct Fire Artillery; Scenario: A Place in the Sun

Issue 39

Scenario: Sky Eyes; Fiction and TO&E: The Waco Rangers- An In-Depth Look

Issue 44

TRO: Cestus CST-3S Heavy BattleMech by Dale L. Kemper.

Note: This is not the canon Cestus BattleMech, but rather statistics intended for the Cestus figure produced by Ral Partha Enterprises… commonly called the BattleDroid Cestus. The text and 'Mech profile is identical to the previously published one from Space Gamer magazine issue #79. Ral Partha's catalog number… referenced explicitly in the Space Gamer article... for this 'Mech was 20-814. The unattributed artwork in the Challenge article looks more like a Rifleman than the artwork from Space Gamer magazine by John Bridges which was clearly based on the Ral Partha figure.

The Introductory Level technology 'Mech was 65 tons and moved like a Panther. It relied on dual AC/2's, ML's and LRM5's for weaponry. It is 2 tons overweight.

Issue 47

Game Aid: The Psychology of MechWarriors

Issue 48

Scenario: Wolftrap

Issue 51

Game Aid: The Warriors' End

Issue 54

Scenario: Ghosts in the Machine; TRO: Laumer tank & Achilles ACH-1 & ACH-2 BattleMech

Issue 55

Game Aid & Scenarios: Connor's World; TRO: Agni & Rudra Hovertanks

Issue 61

Scenario: Low Desert Kill; TRO: Yellow Jacket YJ-5K & Mosquito MS-5Q BattleMechs

Issue 67

Game Aid: On the Cutting Edge

Issue 68

Scenario: Fire on the Mountain

Issue 69

Game Aid: Infantry and Field Weapons

Issue 70

TRO: Echidna, Porcupine, Tapir, Infantry Transport, Mule & Medusa tanks

Issue 71

Article: Maxed Out!; Scenario: Ant Hill

Issue 73

TRO: Pulse Leader PLS-5A, Pulsar & Ranger BattleMechs (The Pulsar is not connected to the Future Wars version.)

External Links

• Challenge Magazine
• Jal Phoenix's Inventory of Challenge Magazine